Hemmings Auto Blog

As we see from browsing through Charles Cushman’s photos, he spent the spring of 1964 in and around Austria. Why, we don’t know, but he seems to have absorbed as much of the scenery as possible, in the process capturing a number of urban street scenes. We selected five here, Read more

[Editor’s Note: After our post previewing the woodie car and wooden boat show last week, many of you expressed a desire to see photos from the show. Fortunately, Jeff Yeagle, who drove his 1940 Ford Deluxe woodie to the show, supplied some photos and coverage for us. For more of Read more

Mac Mackay, who has already brought us a few great carspotting images from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is back with a couple more shots from that town’s shipyards. The above shot from March 4, 1970, shows the icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent in drydock for repairs. Mac noted that the icebreaker, Read more

This, my friends, is how to sell your 1928 Ford Model A pickup: It will fetch the morning paper, another case of ale or a three-story, gilded plastic bowling trophy the minute you rattle the keys. And funny, come to think of it, on several occasions, all at the same Read more

Unlike new cars, collector cars are made all the more compelling by the stories they accumulate over the years, and we car guys are often attracted to the stories just as much as we’re attracted to the cars themselves. George’s 1970 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 has been through quite a bit, including Read more

Some guys get all the luck. It’s one thing to find a 4-4-2 that’s been sitting for nearly 30 years and thus hasn’t been messed with. It’s another thing altogether to find an unmolested 4-4-2 that comes with all the NOS parts necessary to restore the car, as was the Read more

We always seem to praise the 1950s as a simpler, more laid back time, but this 1951 shot of downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, found over on PhotOhio.org, looks fairly busy, with plenty of foot and wheeled traffic, shops all up and down Paint Street, and a general sense of hustle and Read more

On first glance, we thought this was the half-a-Fury we featured almost three years ago, but it appears this 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury GT for sale on Hemmings.com – another V-code Six-Barrel car – is another, more complete example, though one that will still require considerable work to put back Read more

A fine example of the captive import phenomenon is this 1973 Capri for sale on Hemmings.com, a car built by Ford in Germany (and sold overseas as a Ford), then brought to the United States and sold simply as a Capri out of Lincoln-Mercury dealerships. This one remains in largely Read more

C. William Brubaker’s quest to document the architecture of Chicago took him all over the city, including some of the, er, seedier, parts, as we see from these two street scenes taken in 1976 along North Wells Street looking north, above from West Evergreen Avenue, and below from West Schiller Read more